When gout flares up, the joint pain is often excruciating. But that's not the only worry tied to this common inflammatory arthritic condition.
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Gout occurs when urate crystals accumulate in the joints, and xanthine oxidase inhibitors such as febuxostat are a mainstay of therapy to help reduce blood urate levels in affected patients. A recent clinical trial published ...
Jul 7, 2022
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An analysis of nearly two decades of data has revealed that Native Hawaiian study participants had more than twice the risk of developing gout as older adults, relative to white participants. Black and Japanese participants ...
May 30, 2022
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Just one in three patients with gout in the U.K. received preventative medication within a year of diagnosis, new research has found. The study is published today in The Lancet Regional Health—Europe by researchers from ...
May 26, 2022
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Gout is the most common cause of inflammatory arthritis and affects an estimated 20,000 people in Edinburgh alone.
Apr 19, 2022
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(HealthDay)—For patients with gout and chronic kidney disease (CKD), no associations with increased mortality were seen for allopurinol initiation, achieving target serum urate (SU) levels, or allopurinol dose escalation, ...
Jan 25, 2022
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New research presented this week at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, shows that allopurinol and febuxostat may effectively lower urate levels when used in a treat-to-target approach. ...
Nov 2, 2021
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September is Rheumatic Disease Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about four common rheumatic diseases: Ankylosing spondylitis, gout, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and lupus.
Sep 24, 2021
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By combining two medications, researchers at Michigan Medicine optimized a therapy for people with gout, a condition that causes severe damage and disability if left untreated.
May 11, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Rates of in-hospital cardiac procedures continued to increase in people with gout and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from 1998 to 2014, although they decreased for the general population, according to a study published ...
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